The NSW Coroner has recommended that the lawyer who represented the children gunned down by their father should be investigated for disciplinary action.

Police believe the man’s black ute broke down on the Pacific Highway where he was set upon and shot multiple times.

Victorian emergency departments are scouring patient records for any suspected rare blood clots that could be linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

A Sydney court has heard Mathew Dunbar wanted to be a father but may have struggled with his sexuality. His partner has pleaded not guilty to his murder.

Arts Minister Don Harwin said a NSW parliamentary committee would scrutinise the controversial legislation aimed at protecting the state’s significant natural, cultural and built heritage items.

The mass vaccination hub would be located at a new commercial building in Homebush and be capable of administering 30,000 doses a week to the general public.

Wayne Sellars recounted to the Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry the methane gas explosion at Grosvenor Coal Mine last year.

A Melbourne artist colony says it has issued Rhiannon Jorgensen six letters to vacate its Christmas Hills property, where she has been living rent-free.

A serial drink-driver was given one of WA’s harshest sentences over the accidental slaying of two 27-year-old women on Perth’s roads in May last year, but wasn’t barred from driving ever again.

Over the past year, increasing evidence has shown the novel coronavirus can be transmitted through aerosol spread.

The teenager was resuscitated after he was pulled from the surf at Coolangatta on the Gold Coast. 

Text messages, including “Daddy is busy making money, no time for a doggy like this”, have been used as evidence in court to decide the ownership of a $4000 Pomeranian called Kobe.

The removal of a Sydney University online article exposing links between professors and the Chinese government was the wrong call, but there is no free speech crisis on campus.

It appears increasingly likely that the AstraZeneca vaccine may cause a new rare clotting condition. As experts work out how to treat and prevent it, Australia needs to accept its obligation to care for the few people who may be harmed in pursuit of ...

Today on Please Explain Nathanael Cooper is joined by south-east Asia correspondent Chris Barrett to find out more about the growing unrest in Myanmar.

More than 100 overseas travellers will arrive in Melbourne on Thursday as the state’s quarantine system is restarted after an almost two-month hiatus.

The 33-year-old former Sydney Girls High School student, who made the HSC “distinguished achiever” list in 2004, had the world at her feet. But a drug addiction saw it come spiralling down.

Australian Nursing Federation state secretary Mark Olson said he spoke to Roger Cook a week out from the WA election about urgent concerns at Perth Children’s Hospital.

A Victorian coroner is calling for the state government to urgently implement public drug testing following the deaths of five young Melbourne men.

Police are conducting separate investigations into an alleged road rage stabbing and three-vehicle crash on the same road in Sydney’s south-west which left four people injured.

Drummoyne MP John Sidoti believed a political agenda against him, led by the local Labor mayor, was the reason his family’s properties were excluded from a major rezoning project, a former councillor has told ICAC.

A woman who became stuck and died in a charity bin has been identified, while an autopsy will determine exactly how she was killed.

The defamation case against a Kingston councillor is the latest in a string of cases about the liability of online administrators for posts by third parties.

Allan Sutherland was charged with two counts of misconduct in relation to public office in December 2019.

The operator of three COVID vaccine clinics in Sydney has apologised for sending a text message to patients telling them to respond within 48 hours or risk losing their vaccine dose.

“We put out our figures every day, I am asking the federal government to put out their figures every day,” Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

Justice Frank Vincent has heard some of Australia’s biggest criminal cases, including the Russell Street bombing and Frankston serial killer Paul Denyer trials.

Multiple doctors were off sick at the time the little girl was dying – but authorities have warned against leaping to conclusions about what caused her death.

Former PNG governor Malcolm Kela Smith was medically evacuated to Queensland nearly two weeks ago after his condition deteriorated.

The West Australian government has ruled out pushing for an expansion of international worker exemptions beyond horticulture.

Paramedics were confronted by a “traumatic and chaotic scene” after they responded to reports of an accident involving the power tool.

The federal government is claiming the 339 recommendations of the royal commission have been largely implemented, but recent Aboriginal deaths highlight those recommendations that were not implemented.

The idea of our national government setting out to transform society and the economy has been in various forms of retreat for most of this century.

Speaking from personal experience of suffering COVID-19 and long COVID, the benefits of being vaccinated far outweigh the risks.

An Aboriginal person in custody is less likely to die than a non-Aboriginal person. But incarceration rates are out of control.

Dave Sharma has had a big year in property. And he’s not the only politician cashing in on the property boom.

Health staff who received Pfizer vaccines to stop doses being wasted have been turned away when they attempt to get their second jabs for full protection against coronavirus.

The ineptitude of the government’s vaccine rollout stands in strong contrast to the achievements of aid organisations overseas.

NSW and Victoria are forging ahead with a second tranche of defamation reforms, examining the responsibility of internet platforms for defamatory material.

Phar Lap dead, De Groot fined and rubbish in the fountain.

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Commercial owners of the neighbouring Riparian Plaza claim plans were not properly submitted and their approval was “wrong at law”.

And choko in the can.

Roger Cook says he does not want to see people using New Zealand to ‘bunny-hop’ into Australia as WA weighs up how to approach the trans-Tasman travel bubble.

They’ve missed weddings, births, funerals and significant birthdays, but a new travel bubble will help Kiwis in Melbourne fly home for the first time in more than a year.

Indigenous community devastated after farmer uses front-end loader to remove 60 metres of the ancient arrangement. He said he wanted to clear a path to poison an infestation of thistles.

Police purporting to be a 12-year-old girl intercepted one of the men when he went to meet her for sex.

The rain across south-east Queensland is predicted to dissipate by Thursday, as temperatures heat up to summer levels by the weekend.

Inner Melbourne councillors have voted to press ahead with a community hub on council land rather than provide social and affordable housing.

Wade Cameron Dunn was fatally bashed by two drug dealers in 2015 before his body was cut up with a chainsaw.